Part 1: Student selects a leader suitable for myhero.com to study and located reliable information about that leader.
Student selects an appropriate topic and locates three sources including one book, one reliable internet site, and a database source. Student lists searhable keywords.
Student selects an appropriate topic and locates two sources of information.
Student selects an inappropriate topic and one or two sources.
Student does not select a topic.
Part 2: Student records bibliographic information
Student cites three sources correctly.
Student cites two sources correctly.
Student cites one source correctly.
Student does not cite information.
Part 3: Student takes notes on his topic
Student records at least … details or examples for each of his three sources. Students write his own reflections, questions, or visuals.
Student records at least … details from three sources.
Student writes … details or examples from two sources.
Student writes some notes.
Part 4: Student creates a good research question, and transforms the question into his thesis
Level 4:
Why were Roberta Bondar’s experiments on the space shuttle Discovery important to her, to women, to Canada, and to science?
Level 3:
How did Roberta Bondar get to fly on space shuttle Discovery as a payload specialist on the first International Microgravity Laboratory Mission?
Level 2:
Wht space missions did Roberta Bondar go on?
Level 1: When was Roberta Bondar born?
Part 5: Student tells part of the story using a portrait
Student finishes portrait to art class specifications including quotation by his hero, photographs it, and saves the digital image for posting.
Student draws something and save digital version for posting.
Student draws something and photographs it.
Student draws something about his hero.
Part 6: Student tells part o the story using a spreadsheet, graph, or chart.
Level 4: Students shows an important using numbers – for example, war injuries and survival in the time of Florence Nightengale and in Iraq.
Level 3: Student takes facts and figures to create spreadsheet, for example acres of land owned by peasants before Pancho Villa and after Pancho Villa
Level 2: Student shows how hero compares to other figures at his time in dollars earned, people impacted, etc.
Rubric for MyHero.com Project
Why were Roberta Bondar’s experiments on the space shuttle Discovery important to her, to women, to Canada, and to science?
How did Roberta Bondar get to fly on space shuttle Discovery as a payload specialist on the first International Microgravity Laboratory Mission?
Wht space missions did Roberta Bondar go on?